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IWO JIMA LESSON.
PLANES NOT ENOUGH.
Fields Quickly Repaired.
NEW YORK, Dec 28.-Reporting
from Saipan, the Associated Press
says that Major-General R. W.
Douglass, commander of the Seventh
Air Porce, told a Press conference:
"Planes alone cannot beat Japan.
The .Japanese have been able to
keep even much-bombed Iwo Jima
(Bonin Islands) in shape. Every
time we fly over we find the air
fields repaired. The Japanese with
a couple of bulldozers are able to
repair their coral fields in half an
hour. It would take 1,000 planes
dropping bombs hourly to keep Iwo
Jima permanently knocked out."
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